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Good hint - thank you I was just about to forget about that ... just have to read the docs how to do it, but you are definitly right. Michael "Larry Pieniazek" <lpieniazek@mercator.com> wrote in message news:GuE3I7.Fy4@lugnet.com... (...) (23 years ago, 11-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: review: Radeon 7000 for BrickDraw3D, low-end Mac
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(...) Cool! If you can clearly show where you make the changes, I might be able to port this back into the other versions. I've never been all that happy with the rendering speed myself. You can see in the code where I tinkered a bit with display (...) (23 years ago, 11-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: Parts as volumes (instead of surfaces)
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(...) "marking up" would be better done by machine algorithm, and would encompass the Connection Point proposal at the same time. It would indeed yield a separate definition of the parts. A lot of high-end CAD programs read polygons (like we have) (...) (23 years ago, 11-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Parts as volumes (instead of surfaces)
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(...) Maybe I'm missing a technical distinction, but it seems he used bounding boxes *for* collision detection, as opposed to using exact volumes. (...) True. My point was, marking up the LDraw part files for volume decomposition would either: a) Be (...) (23 years ago, 11-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Enhancement request - File dialogs
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(...) Before you write one from scratch, try using the file save dialog to do directory selection. It's a common trick. The file save dialog has more features, including a pastein path bar, and you just check what's returned to make sure it's a (...) (23 years ago, 11-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Upgrading my stock Apple G3/233 with a Radeon 7000 gave BrickDraw3D an 85% speed improvement. In pure OpenGL mode the improvement is 60% over the existing OpenGL advantage. The 2002 ATI Retail Card Update worked on G3/233 with 9.1 but BrickDraw3D (...) (23 years ago, 11-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: Enhancement request - File dialogs
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I'll take that into the wishlist. The dialog currently used is standard windows .. if I haven't overseen something that's all it can do. But generating a new one might not be so hard ... I'll have a look. Michael "Larry Pieniazek" (...) (23 years ago, 11-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: New Part: 3001p59.dat - Brick 2 x 4 with Shell text
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(...) I could contribute with quite a lot of printed parts, since I collect them! I'll see what I can do. /Tore (23 years ago, 11-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: New Part: 3001p59.dat - Brick 2 x 4 with Shell text
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Tony, Tore, The 2x4 shell brick came in set <set:325 Shell service station> . That's the rare European only one with the yellow doors. I also have that 2x4 Shell text brick, if you want more pictures/comparisons. Also, there is a single brick with 2 (...) (23 years ago, 11-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: "tangenting"
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(...) more (...) hoses, (...) From here what you can do is calculate the angle you need, based on the difference of the endpoints and a inverse tangent funtion. Or you can calculate the angle automatically using Paul Easter's handy calculator ((URL) (...) (23 years ago, 11-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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